Unable to set full/wide width for a pattern

[richtabor]

Describe the bug
Within the /new-pattern/ experience, I am unable to set a pattern align attribute to wide/full. Is this intentional?

For this pattern, I believe I built it in the post.php view, and copy/pasted it in (which maintained the fullwidth value).

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[StevenDufresne]

Just clarifying, in the new-pattern editor you are not seeing this alignment button?.. although copy and pasting seems to apply the setting properly?

[richtabor]

I went to double-check but https://wordpress.org/patterns/new-pattern/ doesn't seem to be correct anymore — did that change?

[StevenDufresne]

It should be working for you now.

[richtabor]

Thanks, that worked.

So yea, I'm not able to set blocks as wide or full in this experience — though I can paste in blocks that have the alignment already set to those (although I can't change it).

[StevenDufresne]

This is because the image block is the root block. If you were to wrap it in a group, your controls will appear as expected.

@ryelle Why don't we allow alignments on the root?

pattern-directory/public_html/wp-content/plugins/pattern-creator/src/components/block-editor/index.js

Line 31 in e53161a

// At the root level of the site editor, no alignments should be allowed.

[ryelle]

TBH, it's something we inherited from the site editor, I would need to investigate why it's needed there.

[StevenDufresne]

I tracked down the code and it appears it was added in 30079:

Remove the alignments from the top level of the site editor because at that point there's no defined layout, so they won't do anything.

So I think we can remove alignments: [] safely. Not sure yet if the whole Layout object can be removed yet.